You're already free, you just haven't realized it yet

"...first there are mountains and water. Then there are no mountains and no water. And then, there are mountains and water."

In this new, fully revised second edition of Already Awake, Already Free, Joey Lott shares with us his unique vision of how we can develop our own realization of our inherent freedom. He makes no attempt to 'awaken' us, he strives only to point out that each and every one of us is already awake. We just don't always realize it.

And for die-hard fans of the original first edition, the great news is that it’s also included in this volume as a bonus read!

Looking for Freedom and complete peace of mind?

“We have records of humans seeking self-knowledge and spiritual awakening for thousands and thousands of years. Perhaps out of sheer habit humans still seek awakening. But my contention is that this is folly for we are each already awake.”

Many of us have been looking for a long time. Many of us have been looking in all the wrong places. Lott cuts through some of the popular, often complex and expensive techniques that we habitually look to when we think of ‘awakening’, and teaches instead that the only place we need to look is within ourselves. His teaching is practical, concise, straightforward and completely free of dogma.

So how do I awaken?

Through a series of simple, profoundly effective exercises designed to shift our habitual fixation on thought, Lott explains how we can let go of everything that can obscure our clarity of vision. There are no gimmicks; no improbable promises regarding the ways in which your life will change; just a simple, frank, honest approach to the removal of suffering and the discovery of freedom. And best of all, the exercises he shares can shift your perception instantly! They will allow you to naturally notice what already is – that you already are awake!

Joey Lott offers an invitation to readers to “explore direct experience and discover the actuality of what is” – so why not accept? Download your copy of Already Awake, Already Free and begin exploring.

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About the Author

"The secret to happiness is to let go of everything - see through every assumption."

Beginning at a young age Joey Lott experienced intensifying anxiety. For several decades he lived with restrictive eating disorders, obsessions, compulsions, and an inescapable fear. By the time he was 30 years old he was physically sick, emotionally volatile, and mentally obsessed with keeping any and all unwanted thoughts and experiences at bay.

At this time Lott was living on a futon mattress in a tiny cabin in the woods. He was so sick that he could barely move. He was deeply depressed and hopeless. All this despite doing all the "right" things such as years of meditation, yoga, various "perfect" diets, clean air, and pure water.

Just when things were at their most dire, a crack appeared in the conceptual world that had formerly been mistaken for reality. By peering into this crack and underneath all the assumptions that had been unquestioned up to that moment, Lott began a great undoing. The revelation of this undoing is that reality is utterly simple, ever-present, seamless, and indivisible.

Lott's books provide a glimpse into the seamless, simple, and joyous nature of reality, offering a glimpse through the crack in conceptual worlds. Whether writing about the ultimate non-dual nature of reality, eating disorders, stress, disease, or any other subject, he offers the invitation to look at things differently, leaving behind the old, out-grown, painful limitations we have used to bind ourselves in suffering. And then, he welcomes you home to the effortless simplicity of yourself as you are.

Not sure where to begin? Pick up a copy of Lott's most popular book, You're Trying Too Hard, which strips away all the concepts that keep us searching for a greater, more spiritual, more peaceful life or self.

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I am very grateful for what is expressed here in this book. Myself, as someone who deals with social anxiety and thought compulsion, can very easily relate to the concerns, ideas, and solutions discussed in this guide. Very quickly you understand how it is simple to be free from obsession, fixation, mesmerization, confusion, and any other distractions caused by thought, so you can be free to be fulfilled and enlightened. I recommend this book to everyone, even if you just want to remember who/what you actually are, or just need to calm down and not take life so seriously. This was a great short guide to peace of mind.

Already awake Already free by Joey Lott is a marvelous short book about the solid basics of nonduality. He approaches the topic with frank no nonsense bull---- about the simple truth to it all that you can't not be awake. And even if you don't buy it that's tough,too bad you're still awake any way. It is not ultra polished theological meta physics and yet it is. Like his other writings his approach is wonderfully pragmatic and hits home on so many marks. Different non dual writers have sort of different flavors and slants. Lott 's flavor reminds me a bit of writers like the young american Buddhist rock and roll writers.

Joey combines non duality wisdom with problems we face day to day such as how to handle feelings, thoughts and etc...I always had a problem with feelings (and I still do to some degree..). The direct experience is always the answer

from the book:

"Most of the time when we experience feelings, we give names to them"."Yet something quite different reveals itself when you simply give full attention to the direct experience of the physical sensation"."sensations change spontaneously"

Joey Lott pares down all the lingo of, what I call, "spiritual-speak" into bare bones simplicity. The mind can take spiritual teachings and form a kind of religion, in my experience, which furthers the mind's agenda, that there is something to get that is not what is, right now. It probably takes a very seasoned seeker who has suffered from this seeking and tried and tried to get something other than what is happening now . . some experience . . some kind of shift . . that will change everything. This is the essence of the moment and nothing else. It's how this moment is perceived (welcomed or unwelcome) that brings relief from suffering.

If you have been trying and trying, with books, videos, seminars, and the like to try to change what is, with no effect, than this book is for you, along with his other books (I have a library of nonduality books). Spiritual seeking is only another form of suffering, another diversion from the total and unvarnished acceptance of what is. There is no escape from what is. You will seek until you're exhaused from seeking, like I was.

This book is so real and honest. It is beautiful. Joey really shares from his heart to help others experience relief. It is so nice to learn to let go. The striving to make things different or figure anything out really is burdensome. So is the resistance to what is occurring now. Joey's words are the best I've come across to help me start to take the actions to let go of the habits, tension and beliefs that cause me and those around me to suffer.Thank you Joey for such an honest and truly helpful book. I see your dedication to helping others experience freedom and peace. You have made a real difference in my life. Now I'm recognizing resistance more and consciously softening. I'm also noticing when I make things a "problem" in my thoughts and loosening my beliefs in them. I experience a pleasant relief with each letting go. I'm grateful to have found this.

Lott gives life to the phrase "Just Be" by showing us how to let life's experiences and feelings ebb and flow like the tides, free from judgement and free from the need to change things that don't need changing. What if the things we think are wrong about ourselves are the things that the world needs just as they are? Deep but easy to grasp. Highly recommended.

This wasn't a bad book for a free download. Except there were some places that were confusing and didn't make much sense. Yet, I was able to finish it and found it had some helpful pointers to navigate my life. Hope to read more from this author

Joey always writes in an easy to understand and conversational tone. The title is directly related to the message and the sharing is genuine.I always recommend Joey's books if you are disinclined to BS!